Broken Bay

- 33.534527151.247177Koordinaten: 33 ° 32 ' S, 151 ° 15 ' E

The Broken Bay is a large bay of the Pacific Ocean located about 50 km north of Sydney on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is the first major bay north of Port Jackson, the natural harbor of Sydney. A large part of the south coast of Broken Bay is located in the Ku-ring -gai Chase National Park

Geography

The opening of the Broken Bay to the sea is between Box Head and Barrenjoey Head in the north to the south. The lighthouse at Barrenjoey was built in 1881 to wegzulotsen the ships of the prominent headland. Overall, the bay consists of three arms, the largest is in the west of the Hawkesbury River, in the south there is Pittwater and finally in the north of Brisbane Water. These three arms are flooded rivers that originated at a time when the sea level was much lower than today.

The Hawkesbury River after the confluence of the Grose and Nepean River, comes from the area of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

Pittwater extends 6 km south of Broken Bay, and hits at the northern foothills of the metropolitan region of Sydney. Pittwater is known for its calm waters and a popular spot for sailing. Westhead, west of Barrenjoey, marks the boundary between Pittwater and the Hawkesbury River.

Brisbane Water is the northern arm of Broken Bay. On its banks are the towns of Gosford and Woy Woy.

Lion Iceland, named after its profile similar from a certain angle of the Sphinx of Giza, is centrally located in the mouth of the bay to the Pacific. The Lion Iceland Nature Reserve covers the entire island and is home to a colony of Little Penguins.

Discovery

James Cook wrote in his notes, Broken Land ( " disrupted land") north of Port Jackson to have spotted just before sunset on 7 May 1770 and called it Broken Bay. Yet there is a controversy about whether what is known as Broken Bay today, was actually described at the time of Cook.

"The colonists have called this place Broken Bay, but it is not what was so named by Captain Cook"

" The colonists called this place Broken Bay, but it was not what called by Captain Cook as "

Ray Parkin claims in his book HM Bark Endeavour, that Cook had the Broken Bay today happened unnoticed at night, and that he actually was referring to the area around the lagoon of Narrabeen.

Matthew Flinders localized Cooks Broken Bay also at 33 ° 42 ' south near the lagoon of Narrabeen.

Anyway, the Governor Arthur Phillip was the first European who explored the current Broken Bay on March 2, 1788 a longboat from the Sirius from.

Role during the attack on Sydney Harbour

On 28 November 2005 claimed the documentary filmmaker Damien Lay, that the wreck of the M -24, a Japanese submarine, which was involved in the attack on Sydney 's harbor in 1942, and immediately disappeared, just east of Iceland Lion in the sand lie buried. Lay stated that the copper cables that were found there, coincide with those of comparable boats. A few weeks later, however, the Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, that the New South Wales Heritage Office conducted sonar scans had found no trace of a sunken submarine.

In fact, the M- 24 was 13 km south of Broken Bay, about 5 km from Bungan Head, found that the hypothesis was confirmed that the submarine would pay no attention to the south lies the mother ship and therefore the north, to the Broken Bay, distant.